It was supposed to be a slam dunk, right? Kelly and Rob, two of the most popular dudes in the world of surfing. Peter King, Mr. MTV himself. Just lay down a track, slap a palm tree on the album cover and start sifting through surf footage for all those groovy music videos. The final step? Print. That. Ca$h. Thankfully things didn’t work out that way because Kelly certainly makes a much cooler 11-time world champ than he would have made a rock star.
This little flashback actually brings up a good point though. PK says “surf music” and “music you see in surf videos” are two different things. And what the heck is surf music anyway? If anybody was going to define that for us it should have been these beloved dudes…err, surfers. So thank the lord the three amigos (THAT should have been their band name) didn’t just try to emulate Blink-182 and give in to stereotypes. The surf world might still be recovering to this day.